Question Time, Credibility Check.....

[ToraToraTora]

They seem to have a brain dead violent thug on the panel! Surely the idea of the program is debate of topical issues. What are the BBC thinking?

[Booldawg]

think it backfired on the Beeb; they were expecting Joey Barton to say something stupid pro-UKIP.

[ToraToraTora]

well it seem there is a load of idiots on here too.

[Gromit]

Barton didn't get to say much and he made the 4 ugly girls gaffe.

The whole programme was awful (including all the other guests), I am sorry I wasted an hour watching it.

[DrFilth]

on the plus side Gromit you have a tv screen to protect you from having a cigar stubbed into your eye :-)

[Ken4155]

AOG; whilst playing for Burnley, Clarke Carlisle was on the panel and did such a good job, he was invited back. Also appeared on countdown twice, winning the first. Quite an intelligent and erudite chap, is our Clarke. They're not all as thick as Rooney, y'know:-)

[New Judge]

Yes, one of the most disappointing QT's for some time (but at least we were spared anyone from the LibDems crying into Nigel Farage's beer).

One thing I'm not quite sure about, Prudie:

"...and bear in mind he represents a fair enough proportion of society to warrant his views being aired. "

Which "fair enough proportion" would this be then? Professional footballers, millionaires or violent thugs? Mr Barton showed a singular lack of respect undertsanding on QT. Quite why the BBC saw fit to invite him is quite beyond me. But I suppose after Russell Brand the only way was up.

[Zeuhl]

The friend of a colleague went to drama school with Louise Bours.

Apparently everyone there hated her, as she was fixated on being 'famous' in any way possible but didn't show any special acting talent.

Seems like UKIP have provided a useful platform for her ambitions.

[bibblebub]

Today's quiz: Joey Barton and Piers Morgan - who said what?

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/quiz/2014/may/30/joey-barton-piers-morgan-question-time-quiz

[Prudie]

NJ I can only base it on the people I've grown up with, met in life, work with, taught even - IMO a fair proportion of society do not hold the intellectual ability and well thought out views that one comes across on here for example but rather those of Joey Barton and his ilk.

[mikey4444]

I have just watched Bartons' intellectual input into last nights program. While I am glad that the show has people other than politicians on it once in a while, couldn't the BBC have at least checked that this tw*t had his brains between his ears instead of down his pants first ? :::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27633347

[Svejk]

5/11. ;-(
I thought it was a trick question and answered piers for all of them.

[mikey4444]

I have read further down the page on my Barton BBC link, and it transpires that Barton has quite a checkered past, mostly due to crimes of violence ::::

"In 2004 he was fined six weeks' wages by Manchester City after he stubbed a cigar in the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy during a Christmas party.

In 2007 he received a suspended jail sentence and was given a 12-match ban for a training ground altercation with team-mate Ousmane Dabo, which left him needing hospital treatment.

The following year he was jailed for six months for common assault and affray after a late-night attack on a man in his native Liverpool "

Perhaps the BBC should have erred on the side of caution and not had him on after all.